Showing posts with label Recount Text. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recount Text. Show all posts

Saturday, March 20, 2010

An Example of Recount Text



Here is an example of Recount Text. Please, analyze the generic structure.
This is a letter of an elementary student for her grandparents.
Generic Structure

Orientation
Dear Granpa and Grandma,
Yesterday at my school we had an International Day. We had performances, food stalls, displays, raffle ticket draw, and some of us were dressed in costumes.



Event 1



Event 2

Event 3


Event 4

Event 5

We started our day off with performances but the one I liked best was the one from fourth grade. We played games. The performance I was in was Lambada.

Straight after our performances we had our lunch. There were food stalls. They came from Australia, Asia, Arab, and Greece.
Everyone had a job. These people were from sixth grade. I did my job after I had lunch. My job was to sell Intenational Day Books.
We had displyas in the hall. These displays were good but I didn’t get to see them. They displays came from a lot of countries.
There were also a Trash and Treasure stall where they sold toys. The school got these things by asking the children to bring them in.
Resolution
Although I didn’t win anything, International Day was still fun.
Love from Sue


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  1. An Example of Recount Text
  2. Kinds of Recount

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Kinds of Recount




Kinds of Recount


The social function of Recount text is to retell past event or something which happened in the past. The purpose of this text can be only to inform or even just to entertain. Derewianka (1990) identified three types of Recount text, namely Personal Recount, Factual Recount, and Imaginative Recount. Personal Recount exposes an event in which the writer or the author got involved or acted in the event himself. Belong to this type among others are daily funny incidents, entries of a diary, etc. Factual Recount is a note of an event, such as scientific experiment report, police report, newspaper report, history explanation, etc. Imaginative Recount is an unreal event or story, like reading texts for language lesson, a story about a life of a slave, etc. Hardy and Kalrwein (1990) divided two kinds of Recount, namely Personal Recount and Historical Recount.